INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Brave Care, the YC-backed urgent care clinic for kids, has today announced the close of a $5 million seed round of funding.The company
graduated out of the recent batch of Y Combinator companies but sat out of demo day because this round was already oversubscribed,
according to co-founder Darius Monsef .Investors that participated in the round include Sesame Street (via their partnership with VC
with the goal of creating a pediatric-focused urgent care clinic that could both serve companies and save them from spending thousands of
96.7% of them were treat-and-release visits.Brave Care wants to be there for parents and kids when the situation calls for something
in-between their regular doctor and the emergency room.The facility was built specifically for children
The waiting rooms are kid-friendly, the instruments in the patient rooms are kid-sized and the general philosophy behind Brave Care focuses
on taking extra time to clarify the diagnosis and the treatment options clearly and patiently to parents.The company also has plans to
introduce a triage tool that walks parents through symptoms and helps them decide if they should head to an urgent care clinic or straight
to the emergency room.The funding will allow Brave Care to build out a new electronic health records system that would streamline check-in,
foster communication with parents during and after a visit and help physicians and nurses spend more time focused on the patient and less
Brave Care will use the funding to open new, more lightweight facilities in the Portland area that can act as spokes to the main hub
facility, where the company has expensive but not oft-used equipment like an X-ray machine or a full-service lab.
